Building Bayou City

Shaun Theriot-Smith

Do you have a potential project within the East Downtown (EaDo) or Midtown Management Districts that you just canât get to pencil out on paper due to the number of parking spaces the City requires you to build? The City of Houston Planning Commission and City Council will be considering a vote in the next three months to expand the off-street parking exemption area from Downtown into EaDo and Midtown to remove off-street parking requirements.

following Harris County. The City is keeping their word on raising the regulatory floodplain from the 100-year to the 500-year floodplain elevation and, in some areas, could reflect a difference of as much as several feet and many thousands of dollars in increased development cost.

With the updated Harris County Floodplain Regulations, the County is keeping their word on raising the regulatory floodplain from the 100-year to the 500-year floodplain elevation and, in some areas, could reflect a difference of as much as several feet and many thousands of dollars in increased development cost.

I had the privilege of sitting down with Randy Wilburn, host of the Zweig Letter Podcast in December to talk about my experiences at BIG RED DOG Engineering and also my service in both the military and at the University of Houston as Student Body President.

ABOUT

Shaun Theriot-Smith is a project civil engineer working on Land Development and infrastructure projects in the Greater Houston Area for BIG RED DOG Engineering. A US Army veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, Shaun first became passionate to build communities at home by helping build those abroad. He is a proud alumnus and former Student Body President of the University of Houston and is father to two incredible twin girls and a son along with his incomparable spouse, Paige.